Students will ask questions, determine important facts through reading, and integrate their own thoughts and opinions. This is a good tool for students to discover a focus on research projects.
Materials: Seeing Stars by James Muirden Reading textbooks Library books on their topics of interest
Model the technique by reading the book and writing down questions on a chart (students will use paper folded into thirds). (See example p. 30)
Use a short selection from the reading text (after the story part). Have students try this technique in partners.
Share some of the questions partners came up with.
Ask the following questions after their charts are completed:
How did the FQR chart help you narrow your focus for research?
What did you discover about your topic that you might not have known before?
What are you still wondering about?
When could you use this strategy again? Could this strategy be useful during our reading lessons?
Can you take one of your responses and change it into an essential question for further research?
Students brainstorm a list of possible topics to research and choose one they’re interested in.
I gather resources and they make a FQR for their new topic, creating an essential question. (See Animal Acrostics lesson.)
Students will ask questions, determine important facts through reading, and integrate their own thoughts and opinions. This is a good tool for students to discover a focus on research projects.
Materials:
Seeing Stars by James Muirden
Reading textbooks
Library books on their topics of interest